The Kebbi State High Court has jailed three former bank staff for 91 years over N114.6million fraud.

The convicts, who were jailed by Justice Ibrahim Mairiga, include Suleiman Ibrahim Musa, Bilyaminu Usman and Lawal Suleiman.

They were convicted on 16-count charge bordering on conspiracy, forgery, theft and criminal breach of trust brought against them by the Economics and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and subsequently sentenced to 91 years in prison.

The convicts, who were former staff of FinBank Plc (acquired by First City Monument Bank Plc in 2011), Birnin-Kebbi branch in Kebbi State, were first arraigned on July 21, 2010, and had pleaded not guilty to the charges.

A statement by the Head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said: “Musa, who was then the head of operations, defrauded the bank of N101, 707,000, Usman and Suleiman, both tellers connived to defraud the bank of N6, 627,500 and N6, 267,500 respectively.

“The crimes were committed between 2008 and 2010. They had at different times debited the bank’s customers by carrying out unauthorized withdrawals.

“They were arrested by EFCC operatives following a petition by the bank’s management, after several customers lodged complaints alleging fraudulent deductions from their bank accounts. They had backed up their claims with various documentary evidence – stamped deposits and investment certificates.

“After five years of trial, Justice Mairiga, having been convinced by the evidence brought before him by the prosecuting counsel, Aisha Habib, found the ex-bankers guilty of the charges.”

The trial judge said: “By considering the amount involved and weight of evidence presented before the court by the prosecution, which was never challenged by the defence, it shows that their wrongful act caused a great injury to the bank.

“I therefore, find the accused persons guilty as charged, and so convict and sentence them to 55 years, seven years and 29 years imprisonment respectively without an option of fine, with the jail term to serve concurrently.”

The judge also ordered the convicts to return the stolen money to the bank.

http://thenationonlineng.net/ex-bankers-jailed-91-years-over-n114-6m-fraud/

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Photos of the convicted ex-bankers

Chai! FTC:THERE IS GOD OO,It must be life imprisonment

why 91years

what's their current age??

BTW The money no be small tin ooo

they don't want them to come out and enjoy their loots

Eiyah...

Good for them

Season of jailing.,It might surprise you to know that the vital sectors of this country were laid on a corrupt foundation,if the bad eggs are not flushed out,we will still remain stagnant. But 91years long sha o...

DONT KNOW WHAT TO SAY.

stealing is now corruption! steal and its on this earth dat ur judgement will be, no more waitin 4 heaven. thank God am alive 2 see dis era in nigeria. ha! belle dey sweet me. i had been wondering where EFCC was before? have their offices been closed? but no, they just didnt have a capable government to back them

God bless Nigeria
God bless sw
God bless ss
God bless se
God bless north
God bless buhari
God bless us all

Nawa oh and our politicians get only 18 months for stealing billions!!!

I wonder how many years ROCHAS gets for scamming and looting
IMO state treasury, local government allocation with his family and inlaws for almost 5 years now

Meanwhile.....certain members of the public who have stolen larger amounts are still at large.

Correction....living large.

And we cannot touch them because if we do so, we would be marginalising a certain section of the country.

You know....I don't get Nigerians. We complain about corruption all day long...and when someone does something about our complaints...we complain that they are not investigating others....only our tribesmen.

But I think that it would be great if they, for example, focused on the corrupt people in say my tribe. Because....that means that eventually all the corrupt people in my tribe would be in jail...and their replacements would be incorruptible.,.....which is good news for my tribe.

But this is Nigeria....where stealing is apparently OK.....even when it harms you.

This is the kind of sentence our kwarrupt public
office holders deserve..

What is the difference btw this and life imprisonment? If really they are going to serve the 90yrs, all of them will die b4 it elapses.

So Mama peace knew what she was saying when she said she doesn't want to serve her husband food for 300yrs in prison.

choi..welcome to the season of jailing and wailing...everybody is a convict now delta women are protesting because their commissioner is constantly being arrested and released http://yesreport..com/2015/08/niger-delta-women-protest-continued.html only God knows y

Oboi


E don red, dat na life in prision na, ow many years remain for am to live



Bt i dnt blive dis story jare, dm go bail am

All na wash

na wa ooo,make dem kukuma kill am na

Season of Decades of jailing unloading during this regime Stealing is gradually becoming corruption !!!

Damn!

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20th To coment since this week good things ahead. Meanwhile, the one on 55 hope you have lodged that corruption on fixed deposit for at least 55yrs

Stealing is now corruption

Five years of trial? More like five years of torture.

One agony of being a banker is... You may end up in jail for defrauding someone

Or

For managing a fraudulent account you know nothing about

Or

As a sacrificial lamb to a criminal politician whom you have been managing.

Breaking news: A teller colleague of mine just got arrested today. He may go to jail for abetting fraud.

Plea bargaining would av pay the bank.

Say No to Forgery and Corruption

san316:
Five years of trial?

This is Naija bro.

RIP in advance

This is the way to jail criminals , finally no tribe is free of thieves. This thread can now lay to rest tribal bashing of thieves and criminals

Death sentence

.
We need more

Correct!!!!

Make dem go loothe for insde jail
Na der dem go see black d*cks run
Mabasi